Patient-centered approach can backfire
...t means educating patients about their conditions, encouraging questions and collaboration, discussing how the condition affects the patient emotionally, and involving patients in treatment decisions. Some patients prefer that style and respond very well to it. But new research at the University of Iowa sugges...Nationwide data highlight encouraging trends, 'staggering' costs of ESRD
...ith the previous year. The decline is especially encouraging at a time when type 2 diabetes mellitus, one of the major risk factors for kidney disease, has reached epidemic proportions. The data suggest that improvements in preventive care may be helping to reduce diabetes-related kidney disease, although seve...Penn researchers discover novel pathway for increasing 'good' cholesterol
...ecreased endothelial lipase (EL) activity. This is encouraging because it suggests that either the PC or EL enzyme might be targets for drug therapy to raise good cholesterol, an unmet medical need in patients with low HDL-C, says Rader. Whats more, the increase in HDL-C was shown to promote reverse cholesterol ...New research finds high prevalence of smoking among physicians in China
...eral population. Physicians can play a key role in encouraging smokers to quit, yet up to now, little has been known about Chinese physicians attitudes and practices regarding smoking. In this first-of-its kind-study, researchers found that 23 percent of 3,552 hospital-based physicians surveyed were smokers, sub...Why women get more migraines than men
...ults need to be confirmed with a larger study, the encouraging results are an example of how new insights into the basic mechanisms of migraine are leading to novel approaches for therapy for the hundreds of millions of individuals worldwide who suffer from this disabling condition....Shining light on pancreatic cancer
... before the pancreas research, the researchers saw encouraging results with colon cancer detection in a study of 500 patients. The new approach also predicted, with 100 percent accuracy, polyps in patients diagnosed with a simultaneous colonoscopy. Because the experimental procedure only scans the outer few ce...RAND presents first Victor Fuchs Research Award to economists at Carnegie Mellon University
...at we all expected but could not demonstrate that encouraging people to take their medicine prevents long-term complications, and ultimately can save a substantial amount of money. The paper examined the effects of increased drug co-payments on drug spending and on spending for other medical care. Results s...Investigating the causes of Parkinson's disease
...mber of people involved in Parkinsons research and encouraging the UKs top researchers of the future to specialise in Parkinsons. Parkinsons is a progressive neurological condition caused by the death of nerve cells in the brain that produce the chemical dopamine, which is responsible for movement. The conditi...Case study: cross-cultural bioethics training program helps fight African 'brain drain'
...ted by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the trainees provide encouraging evidence of success in the global effort to work collaboratively with African professionals to develop their own ethics-based research methods. After studying in Baltimore for six months under the supervision of a mentor with similar research interes...Personal comments by physicians distract from patient needs
...sclosure would be a part of patient-centered care, encouraging the patient to open up and offer additional valuable information, said Howard B. Beckman, M.D., a co-author of the article and a clinical professor of medicine and family medicine at the School of Medicine and Dentistry. Instead we found these disclo...Shoulder tapping -- Young males are most willing to purchase alcohol for underage youth
... who appear under age 21, said Toomey. This is an encouraging finding. However, we also found that a higher percentage of young males 19 percent were willing to purchase alcohol for underage youth. Although 19 percent may sound like a relatively low success rate, it means that a given youth has about an 80...Damon Runyon renews its $2.25 million investment to support young clinical cancer investigators
.... Her mouse studies and early patient trials show encouraging results and she plans to move this technique into larger clinical trials. Dr. Douglas Graham investigates new treatments for childhood leukemias and lymphomas. Current therapies for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common pediatric ...How to market diet pills: Prescription and over-the-counter pills may increase unhealthy behavior
...rgue, that promote the pills chances of working by encouraging complementary healthy behaviors such as exercise. When consumers are diagnosed with a health condition such as obesity, they dont immediately trade fries for carrot sticks or start taking brisk walks after dinner. In a forthcoming paper in the Jou...UK scientists set their sights on cure for AMD
...se Society, said: This development is exciting and encouraging for current and future generations of AMD patients. While treatments for wet AMD are advancing rapidly, sadly patients with dry AMD have had no prospect of any viable therapy. Our thanks and congratulations to the instigators of the London Project to...GSK announces launch of largest ever Phase III trial in lung cancer treatment
...e Phase III trial in due course. Based on these encouraging data, GSK also announced today the opening of pati...red to show statistical significance, the trend is encouraging and warrants continued clinical investigation of MAGE-A3 ASCI. In the Phase II clinical study, the...Extra pay does not improve hospital performance
...r the use of pay for performance as a strategy for encouraging hospitals to use drugs and therapies that have been proven to save lives in large-scale clinical trials, the researchers said. The theory is that the possibility of receiving higher reimbursements will motivate hospitals to improve the quality of the...Stanford researchers track human stem cells transplanted into rat brain
...searchers implanted them. All of this adds up to encouraging news for researchers hoping to use stem cells to treat human disease. For now, nobody knows the best way of inserting the cells, the conditions that are best for cell survival, or the optimal timing after an injury for when transplanting the cells is...Researcher says few families report safe firearm storage
...guns locked but to have the guns loaded. "We are encouraging all pediatricians to talk with parents about safe gun storage practices," he said. "We want to prevent unnecessary deaths." DuRant and colleagues administered the survey to 3,745 parents in 96 pediatric offices in 45 states, Puerto Rico and Canad...May/June Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...rvices included delivering a parenting curriculum, encouraging contraceptive use, connecting a teen with primary care and promoting school continuation. The program did not reduce the odds of repeated pregnancy or depression; nor did it achieve coordination with primary care.Home Visiting for Adolescent Mothe...MUHC-led international team identifies gene responsible for blindness in infants and children
...ladelphia, USA. Preliminary results have been very encouraging and we expect to launch clinical trials investigating gene replacement for CEP290 and LCA5 in the near future, says Dr. Koenekoop. An estimated 200,000 children worldwide are afflicted with LCA. The FRSQ, the TD FINANCIAL GROUP and The Foundati...